T.C. Boyle is a master at revealing the American psyche in his fiction. His new novel, The Harder They Come, is another impressive example, a gripping portrait of family, violence, and anarchy.

T.C. Boyle has published fourteen novels and ten collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988 for his novel World's End and the Prix Médicis étranger in 1995 for The Tortilla Curtain, as well as the Henry David Thoreau Award in 2014 for outstanding writing about nature. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California and lives in Santa Barbara.

A Best Book of the Year by Newsweek.

A Top 10 Book of 2015 (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times).

Set in the contemporary northern region.